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74 They had made up their minds that they would go in June, before the weather became so hot that they might suffer from it.

"Because we have to consider everything," was Robin's idea. "We shall be walking about all the time, and we have no cool clothes, and we shall have no money to buy cool things, and if we should be ill, it would be worse for us than for children who have someone with them."

In the little account-book, they had calculated all they should own on the day their pilgrimage began. They had apportioned it all out—so much for the price of the railroad tickets, so much for entrance fees, and—not so much but so little—oh, so little, for their food and lodging!

"I have listened when Jones and the others were talking," said Robin, "and they say that everybody who has room to spare and wants to make money is going to let every corner they have. So you see there will be sure to be people who have quite poor places that they would be obliged to rent cheap to people who are poor like themselves. We will go through the small side streets and look."

The first bluebird came again day after day, and others came with it, until the swift dart of blue wings through the air and the delicious ripple of joyous